A pioneer in women’s publishing and in the art of performance poetry, Waters has been writing and publishing for over three decades. Hailed as the “Poet Laureate of Hell’s Kitchen,” she is the recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship in Poetry and a fellowship from the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund. Her … Continued
Thom Ward holds degrees in English from The College of Wooster and the SUNY College at Brockport. Currently, he is Editor/Development Director for BOA Editions, Ltd., an independent publishing house of American poetry and poetry in translation. His poetry books include Small Boat with Oars of Different Size,published by Carnegie Mellon University Press, 1999 and … Continued
(1887-1943) Writer. “While Rome Burns” (1934), was a member of the Algonquin Hotel’s Round Table. He stayed at 34 W. 12th Street.
(1903-1968) Writer, novelist. Cornell Woolrich lived and died in Harlem, Manhattan, New York.
(1885-1928) Poet, novelist. Elinor Morton Wylie was educated at the Baldwin School, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, and the Holton Arms School, Washington, D.C., and in 1905 she eloped with Horace Wylie, to whom she was married in 1916. The Wylies were divorced in 1923 and she then married William Rose Benet, the poet and critic. Wylie’s … Continued
(1919-2003) Writer. “Forever Amber” (1944), moved to Manhattan after her husband’s death in 1975.
(1900-1938) Writer. “Look, Homeward Angel” (1929), lived at 13 E. 8th Street, University Place and E. 10th Street, the Hotel Chelsea on 23rd St., and 27 15th Street.
(1924-1993) Poet, editor. “Fountain House Review,” lived on the Upper West Side.
(1909-2001) Novelist. Eudora Welty briefly attended Columbia Business School in Manhattan, New York; she left to go back home, to take care of her sick mother.
(1907- 1998) Short-story writer, novelist. Dorothy West was born in Boston, Massachusetts and lived in Harlem, New York. At age 18, her short story “The Typewriter” won the “Opportunity” magazine prize. West was a contemporary of many of the major literary figures of the Harlem Renaissance, including Wallace Thurman, Zora Neale Hurston, and Langston Hughes. … Continued